Our friend Brian from the far north went to Africa with his 24ga FH he did ina NEF break action and got 3 nice buffs with it. Good job.

Our 585HE, 700HE and the great 12ga FH are now in the new COTW bookpublished in Oct, now out for sale,

We now have our target 375 HE cartridge, made by necking down our 585 HE.The other couldn't make enough 375s, so we started our own. It has different shoulder taper, length, neck length, improved over the other one...Got a bunchguys doing it, most into the 2 mile shooting venues, We're making cases,testing, reamer prints at reamer guys, we are getting guys going. King of 2 mileshoot last year really got the interest booming for 375 necked from our case,

Here's how we size and seat 375 HE, a simple die, a 1" die, no huge dies needed A die we can make with resize reamer from reamer guy, a regular die body,then pass on to the next guy, one reamer can make whole bunch of dies for folks.

I do primer work separate, not in the press.That way I can clean pocket, checkflash hole,....... SO First with lock ring set, I size cases.

When coming back out of dies with case, we notice the case still well centered, held straight, when it is down as far as the length of the 375 HE neck... IEthe sides and shoulder corner still supported tight. About .35" down.

So we put washer or another lock ring on, same thickness as neck length,below original lock ring, screw down tight tight in press,

Dies had a 5/8 x 24 thread in top, had powder fill bushing and other stuff same thread, reamed out from bottom to set bullet height, with ram, case,and bullet up,

After priming, loading in the powder charge, we carefully start(boat tail makes it easy) bullet in case by hand, slide up in die, into holder, raise ram to to top, bullet seated perfect. Die can have different thread in top as long as big enough to hold seating bushing of some kind , that can be made from many items.

These target bullets held in by strong neck tension, no crimping needed, and notice bullet point will get no marks or dents, fast, easy, no 380-500 buck special dies. Bushing centering bullet on ogive is very accurate.

OVER 900 375HE cases piled behind presses getting done. About 600 on another bench nearly ready. Small batches in shelves.And we will do more.

Here is picture of a brake on 12ga FH with real hot loadedhollowbase lead slug, brake needed more clearancefor the expanding slug.

Here is the before and after of 375 HE cases, 2 on left necked, 2 on right formed in hydro die after necking..

Here is pic of 416 HSM second from left we are experimentingwith, going to see if we can make the ultimate 416 ELR case.Can be 3.60" to 4.00" long, a long one pictured.Holds over 280 gr ball powder under bullet. In the picture,1st case is 416 HE, 2nd 416 HSM, 3rd 375 HE, 4th 378 WEA.

416 HSM will get 400gr to 4100 plus without needing BMG action,470 gr 3800 plus , it may be the ultimate target, singleshot 416..Case will work in fat bolt actions, with heavy enough barrelto have good, milder, barrel harmonics and srtill be under 50 lbs.A lot of the 2 mile type shoots are adopting 50lb limit.

Here is picture of the 416 HSM fireformed once, next to bmg case we make it from and as we improve wildcatting process next few weeks some specs may make small changes, now from base to shoulder is 3.45", case 3.97" long. Ed..

Manson has 416 HE and 408 HE prints, as well as 375 HEHe can also make you a resize die reamer from that info.We got 700 cases in 416 and one more pass if 408s wanted, , Going to do lot more cases for these 2 sizes also,Questions, PM or email. ph 989-644-5228..

Guys asking about strong economical bolt gun to use for 28ga and410 ga and 32ga with brass cases and higher pressures than plastic cases.They can use a MN bolt action, here is pic of one withour 585 case in the action.Guys can get Magtech brass cases or have RMC make them....Guys can make 32ga case from 500 NE,410s from 9.3 x 74 brass, etc..

Here is picture of our 416 HSM case sectioned next to originalBMG case on the right sectioned, to show that we still haveenough thickness in the sides to handle high pressure,in a case with 310 gr capacity..We are getting the wildcatting work set up so we can do at least hundred a month.We have lots of 585s, 375HEs, 416 HEs, 408 HEs.....And working toward getting 416 HSMs in big numbers.

Here's comparison of 416 target cases, 1st 416 HE, have whole bunch. Second is model of what I'd have made on medium machine, if I could, the 416 HE Long. It has capacity of 230gr.. Third is our 416 HSM which we are working on making by wildcatting bmgcases, And if had run long cases, make longer 375 HE necking down 416 ..

The 12ga FH case now is in the new COTW book onlast page in the wildcat section, I think page 324.They gave good credit to Rob for the idea of that case....

The model 416 HE long case in middle, hydro formed one,

has case capacity of 240 gr, and the 416 HSM in picture,

on the right, we fired a case twice, capacity is 320gr.. Ed..

More info out now; short, fat cases sticking, pockets not lasting as expected.Trying to get best speeds the things raising pressures are bad case proportions, too sharp of shoulders, too fast of powders........... and debth of the bullet into the powder space, as shown in the picture below..My 375, 416, etc testing, bullets loaded like bottom one, in longer freebore....Ed.